Good thing I like change...
Jun 29, 2004

*Sigh* I just moved everything into boxes and to a new place, I finally get everything up (like hanging decoration and such) and where I want it and my mom decides to move, which means, 5 months later I’m packing again. This time my cousin Nicki and I really are going to get a place together (I talked about us talking about it several entries ago when I was still living with the roomates and Jason). I will have no transportation so far and still have to figure out this awful thing they are calling a bus schedule and hope that I have enough time after my last class of the day to take the bus to work. I’m having a hard enough time finding the $450 for the downpayment to the place.

Nicki is already living in those apartments but she’s going to upgrade to a two room and sign a new lease with me. Although the rent will go up and all that, with someone to pay the other half of all the bills, her monthly necessary bills will be cheaper. She won’t get her last deposit back until after she moves out of her old apartment and they approve of the condition she left it in (it is still spotless and very nice so I’m sure she’ll get back the whole deposit), but even though it will be cheaper for her in the long run, I don’t want her to be out of money for any period of time just because I need a place to move into, so I would like to set it up with her where I pay the deposit for the new place and she can use part of the old deposit she gets back from her prior room to pay me half of the new one’s deposit (which will still be less than the deposit she had to make for the apartment she has now, so she will have gained money).

Problem is, now my time has been cut down and I have to be moved out of my mom’s house by the end of July because someone is buying the house. So, I have two paychecks in which to save back about $450 not so bad until you remember that I am only allowed to work 20 hrs a week and so therefore I can’t make more $200 and a couple of dollars per pay check (literally a couple of dollars, maybe not even two), I still have to buy groceries and I have things I’ve already set up to be paid for this coming paycheck, which means all I can get together from my paydays between now and then is $175 Jason is going to give me some money though, he just got a new job, he’s actually going to try to get me about $100 more than what I need so I have the pet deposit so I can keep Yin because he really can’t take her right now. He’s also going to help me sell some of my collector’s items on ebay through the store he was working for so he could have the room above it until he found a job and a better place to stay. They will take care of all the mess for me, shipping and all that and all they ask is 20% of the cut. That would still probably be much more than I’d make at a yard sale, especially considering my sister will want nearly all of the good stuff saying she owes me so much and will never pay me for it just like she did last time (took $100 worth of yard sale priced barbie stuff) and I will not feel like I have the right to say anything about it because she does me an immense favor by babysitting my son for free while I’m at work and school mon-fri and to top it off, once my mom moves my sister says she will even start picking Michael up and dropping him off for me, and since she’s picking him up and taking him to her house by the college, she may as well drop me off at school while she’s at it.

I’d like to move out “on my own” and I know Nicki and I will get along fine—we’ve lived together fine before and only ran into trouble when one of us was ragging, and even then it was minor problems not huge cat fights. I just don’t want to have to pack all of my stuff into boxes again. At least this time I’ll have to sign a year lease, so I know the chances are slim that I’ll be packing it all up again in another couple of months.

You’d think it was funny to look at Nicki and I, we have always gotten along really well and been good friends, we were like sisters that were too close to fight when we lived together, and yet we are total opposites—but then, perhaps that’s why we get along so well? They say the people that fight the most/worst are the ones that can’t stand each other because they are too similar. I’ve joked a couple of times that in high school if we hadn’t been cousins we would have been doomed to hate each other without even getting to know one another because I was a laid back other crowd and she was the partying “preppy” crowd. By other I speak of the sort of non-click group, we weren’t nerds, we weren’t unpopular, and we weren’t popular, we were just the other ones. Of course we never would have ‘hated’ each other, that’s just the stereotype and a joke, but we never would have given each other the time of day either.

I hope Nicki is serious about upgrading her apartment and moving in with me enough for us to get this done by the end of next month, because I have no where else to go if she flakes out. I don’t think she will though, and I think she sincerely does want me to move in with her—she mentioned (before I mentioned possibly moving in with her) that she doesn’t like being alone—all of her life she has always had someone with her and if she didn’t have Roman (her 2 mos old son) she would probably not last long in an apartment by herself. Either way I know that Nicki and I will still be close after we no longer live together, we’ve done it together and are willing to do it again after all. I just need her to get her end done real fast, which is dealing with the landlord and getting approved for a bigger apartment (both of us having a kid I know that one room is not going to be enough—it’s spacious enough for one person and a kid and maybe even a couple and their kid, but although we stayed in the same room when we lived together and we never got to put our stuff in the kitchen and living room, now, with two kids we are going to need more than one room if it’s going to work comfortably.

Whatever happens, it’s time to get some boxes and start packing everything away again (hoping that I don’t have as many fairy collectables break this time as I did in the last move or I won’t have anymore).

--Saronai